Buddy

摘要

Children born with cleft lip and palate (CL/P) disorder go through several years of corrective surgeries, dental procedures, and jaw correction. These children suffer from varying degrees of speech impediment. Current treatments include speech therapy, but such treatments are not equally accessible for children from different socio-economic backgrounds. When available, speech therapists find it difficult to evaluate the children's progress in articulation over time. Buddy is a therapy robot for CL/P children that can provide contextual speech therapy in a gamified story-building format. To improve articulation, Buddy will provide robust visual feedback during these sessions and guide the children in enunciating tough words while collecting data of speech pattern for further analysis by the speech therapist.